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Karen Dotrice is a British actress, known primarily for her role as Jane Banks in Walt Disney's Mary Poppins, the feature film adaptation of the Mary Poppins book series. Dotrice was born in Guernsey to two stage actors. Her career began on stage, and expanded into film and television, including starring roles as a young girl whose beloved cat magically reappears in Disney's The Three Lives of Thomasina and with Thomasina co-star Matthew Garber as one of two children pining for their parents' attentions in Poppins. She appeared in five television programmes between 1972 and 1978, when she made her only feature film as an adult. Her life as an actress concluded with a short run as Desdemona in the 1981 pre-Broadway production of Othello.
Born
Wednesday, 09 November 1955
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Never Alone for Christmas | Commercial Announcer | 2023 |
Prop Culture | Self | 2020 |
Mary Poppins Returns | Elegant Woman | 2018 |
The Nation's Favourite Disney Song | Self / Jane Banks | 2015 |
Saving Mr. Banks | Jane Banks | 2013 |
The Boys | Herself / Self | 2009 |
Best Ever Family Films | Self | 2005 |
20 to 1 | Jane Banks | 2005 |
Young Blades | Schoolteacher / The Teacher | 2005 |
CinéMagique | Jane Banks | 2002 |
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Never Alone for Christmas | Commercial Announcer | 2023 |
Prop Culture | Self | 2020 |
Mary Poppins Returns | Elegant Woman | 2018 |
The Nation's Favourite Disney Song | Self / Jane Banks | 2015 |
Saving Mr. Banks | Jane Banks | 2013 |
The Boys | Herself / Self | 2009 |
Best Ever Family Films | Self | 2005 |
20 to 1 | Jane Banks | 2005 |
Young Blades | Schoolteacher / The Teacher | 2005 |
CinéMagique | Jane Banks | 2002 |
The Wonderful World of Disney | Self / Jane Banks | 1997 |
Voyagers! | Marion Brownlow | 1982 |
The Thirty Nine Steps | Alex / Alex Mackenzie | 1979 |
Give Us a Clue | Self | 1979 |
Golden Gala | Self | 1978 |
20/20 | Self | 1978 |
Joseph Andrews | Pamela | 1977 |
Dickens of London | Maria Beadnell | 1976 |
Napoleon and Love | Desiree | 1974 |
A Picture of Katherine Mansfield | Edna | 1973 |
Upstairs, Downstairs | Lily Hawkins | 1971 |
The Gnome-Mobile | Elizabeth Winthrop / Elizabeth | 1967 |
Mary Poppins | Jane Banks | 1964 |
The Three Lives of Thomasina | Mary McDhui | 1963 |
This Is Your Life | Self | 1955 |
The Magical World of Disney | Mary McDhui / Elizabeth Winthrop | 1954 |